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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of February 13, 2017 — Worksbop Page 3 of 6 interactions at the events and through an online portal hosted by UCF and through the City's Facebook page. The survey was distributed for approximately 100 days and 224 surveys were completed (evenly distributed across the City). 4. Conducted an audit of the existing Comprehensive Plan and compiled preliminary findings of strengths and weaknesses. (Recommendations on where the City could devote some resources to addresses the weaknesses and hopefully build on the strengths will be provided in the deliverable.) 5. Conducted a park audit of Secret Lake Park including 16 hours of observation and over 80 observations to identify the usage at the park and relating that physical activity to recommendations for future park investments on the part of the City. 6. Conducted a collection of community health indicators, including quality of the built environment, social and economic factors, health behaviors, health outcomes and some factors related to the natural environment. Dr. Hawkins added that the goals developed to date were: 1. Improve access and connectivity; 2. Improve built environment to promote physical activity; 3. Increase access to healthy food options; 4. Enhance and promote social connections through built environment; 5. Promote safety through the design of the built environment. He advised that the next step would be to continue data analysis, but transition to specific recommendations, and to hopefully by the end of the semester produce two deliverables: one, a new Comprehensive Plan element for the Commission to consider; and two, a Community Health Report consisting of the data analysis. In response to questions, Dr. Hawkins advised that he anticipated late April of 2017 for the deliverables to be available. Mayor Glancy thanked Dr. Hawkins for the donation of the students' time and efforts and sharing of their perspectives. She added that the City very much appreciated the students' participation and interest and the partnership between the City and the University. Vice Mayor Arainendia arrived in the Chambers at 4: 00 p. in. Mr. Woodruff explained that two of the City's planners were recent graduates ofthe UCF Masters of Planning program and were instrumental in reaching out to UCF regarding the City of Casselberry's possible participation in this graduate program. He added that through discussions with Dr. Hawkins it was determined that a project seeking to find a new element improving the built environment for the City's citizens would be the most beneficial to both the City and the students in terms of updating the Comp Plan and a real life example for the students. Ms. Ghioto continued her presentation, detailing each of the elements that currently exist within the City's Comprehensive Plan and looking at the main goals that had been determined through conversations with City staff and initial review of the documents. She added that the workshop goal was to make sure the consulting team was on the right track and to get input from the City Commission as to any other priorities that needed to be addressed. Her presentation included the following components: